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The Talks

Am I the only person who didn’t know about The Talks? They’re short interviews with interesting celebrities, and I haven’t been able to stop reading them. Some of them make the respondent less likeable (surprisingly, Bill Murray fits into this category for me), but most have at least one great little gem that stands out. For example:

Sir Ben Kingsley says that being knighted was like “a beautiful hug from England.” He also revealed that he keeps chickens because he likes the sound they make. Could he be more adorable?
Jack Nicholson is exactly who he always is, but somehow comes across as very self-aware: “I put on a good show.”
Anthony Hopkins is as sweet and good-natured as I would expect, and has the great quality of seeing everyone in this world as generally the same. “I’m fascinated by that power that we all have. That we create our lives as we go.”
Michael Douglas says he told Catherine Zeta-Jones he’d be the father of her children on the night they met (which, I guess, is how you land someone like Catherine Zeta-Jones).
And Michael Caine has the best response to the questions about getting old and facing death (of which there are many): “You mustn’t sit around waiting to die. When it happens you should come into the cemetery on a motorbike, skid to a halt by the side of the coffin, jump in and say: ‘Great I just made it.’”